The GOP Meltdown

The party’s leaders are at odds with its voters.

“The Republican Party plunged into an epic and historic political crisis Saturday with just a month to go until Election Day as a growing wave of GOP lawmakers called on defiant presidential nominee Donald Trump to drop out of the race in the wake of a video showing him make crude sexual remarks,” the Washington Post reported Saturday night.

“An epic and historic political crisis” may seem a tad overwrought now, after Trump’s improved debate performance Sunday night. But it was an apt description of Saturday’s mood, and...